25 Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects

The list of cool digital photography tutorials and techniques is endless; you can even find ten completely different methods to achieve the same effect. Which is the best? It depends on the photographer, their level of expertise, and the digital photography software they use.

In this post, we have listed our personal favorite digital photography image effects along with tutorials to help you recreate each effect. You will find methods for the popular HDR, tilt-shift, and Lomography effects, to the less familiar, yet equally beautiful, Sabatier and Escher effects. Whichever image effect you use, your images are going to look amazing!

How to Recreate a High Speed Photography Effect

High-Speed Photography is used in physics, health research, sports and more. This tutorial takes you thought he steps of how to capture super-fast movement using an ordinary camera and a little homemade electronics.

How to Create the Diorama Illusion Effect

Exposure Blending Tutorial

How to Create Little Planets Using Your Panoramas

Wee Planets, Tiny Planets or the Polar Panorama effect, whatever name you prefer, is the technique of taking a 360° panorama image and using Photoshop and creating a circular or round image that wraps the panorama around to make it appear like a tiny/wee planet.

How to Cross Process

How to Create a Gritty Photography Effect

How to Create a Movie-Like Effect

You will learn how to give any image a glossy movie-like effect using Photoshop, you will learn how to effectively use color mood adjustments, the depth of field effect and a simple, yet impressive film effect.

How to Create Vintage a Photography Effect

How to Create a Dynamic Lighting Effect »

How to Create the Tilt Shift Effects

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create the tilt-shift lens effect. The goal of this technique is to give a unique feel to the photograph as everything appears to be miniatured or modeled.

Tilt Shifting Photography

How to Create the Infrared Photography Effect

Infrared Photography

How to Create a Black & White Photography Effect with Color

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to add color to black and white photographs by making selections and using adjustment layers.

How to Create Escher’s Droste Effect

The “Droste effect” derives from a Dutch chocolate maker that used an image of its box on the box recursively at smaller and smaller scales. With this tutorial you can recreate this effect with relative ease, using After Effects and Photoshop CS4.

How to Create the Sabatier Effect

True solarization is the reversal of a portion of photographic image resulting from prolonged exposure to an extremely bright light. This tutorial describes in detail the process of solarizeing prints, and how to control the variables to effectively achieve the effect.

How to Manipulate Smoke

Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff.

How to Create Effective Macro Photography

How to Photograph Car Light Trails

The key to photographing car light trails is choosing a good composition and capturing plenty of trails. The great news is that they can be very easy to shoot, and you can produce some amazing images with even the most basic of equipment.

How to Photograph Water Drops

Water droplet photography is very easy to get started with, and you can get as complex as you want. There are three tricks to making beautiful, time-scultped water pictures with a single small flash: Light placement, timing and flash duration.

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